We are so obsessed with cacao that we bought the oldest working cacao farm in Saint Lucia – the Rabot Estate. And today, a proportion of our annual profits are invested into our sustainable – what we call gentle farming – initiatives. Your visit to Rabot Hotel and Project Chocolat supports us in our continued mission to drive positive change for nature and farmers through a gentle cacao-farming approach.
In 2006, Hotel Chocolat bought the 140-acre estate that would become home to our very own cacao farm. Back then, it was tired and overgrown, and we have worked to transform it into the organic, sustainable, cacao farm that it is now.
Alongside becoming cacao growers ourselves, we set out to revive the industry on the island with our Island Growers’ Programme. By providing subsidised seedlings, guaranteeing to buy cacao above the market rate, and to always pay within a week, we brought life back to struggling cacao small holds across the island.
